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War is hell and sometimes you have to take the life of your fellow man in the most brutal and extravagant ways…and you just don’t have a good enough weapon to do it as hard as you want. That’s when you start strapping every weapon you have to every other weapon you have, and hope that physics is in a good enough mood today to let you fire knives out of your machine gun. Like these guys: Anti-Tank Sniper Rifle The Red Army’s elite sniper teams, when not busy killing Nazis, used their spare time to think up new and...

Homemade or DIY guns come in all shapes and sizes. Intrepid basement-workshop gunsmiths try to make their own for various reasons. These 11 homemade guns sadly missed the mark completely. I’ll go easy on you with this first one. Would it shoot? Probably and it might even have some potential but it can also go wrong. Homemade guns held together by duct tape are all the rage these days…Well that’s interesting…This homemade Brazilian shotgun pistol is ready for some bad business for sure. Would it hold up if actually shot?That looks like a major kaboom waiting for anyone foolish enough...

In the event of a societal breakdown this is a simple DIY gun you can build yourself from pieces found or purchased at a hardware store. If you can imagine a national emergency, societal breakdown, military law, national confiscation or natural disaster when firearm access has been prevented or denied, you can also imagine having to build guns on your own. Well, here’s a SHTF weapon that you can make from hardware store items. And if nothing else, it's a practical and fun hack in upping your McGyver skill, and improving your SHTF know-how. By the way, please, ignore the...